I have been taking lots of time to look at jazz music coming from a more artistic and free form of expression in African American music. Its hard to just think how modern day blacks have progressed so much in terms of music and social settings.
One one hand you have people like Lil Wayne, Kanye West, The New Boyz, Etc claiming that they are true musicians who are trying to push a artistic idea forward. And then you have the revolutionary jazz artists of the yester year, who are among those capable of creating timeless music.
People ask me why I wear fedora's and listen to old jazz music alot. The reason: Becuase I only like to surround myself with things in society that I deem to being timeless. Not everyone, nor everything is timeless. Music is timeless due to the fact that the recording which derives from some form of hard to understand language in an artists head. The artist takes this language and applies it to a piece of musical instrument. That instrument is recorded amongst other musical instruments. Those instruments create noise, something that we as humans call music. That music is then transformed into a format, and thus the format is in which the listener begins to actually hear the recording. That is timeless.
So I began my journeys into jazz by dabbling into some bebop. Of course many of you know that I also produce jazzy hip hop, and have sampled many of jazz greats from the past. But what if I actually took the time to study this form of music? Well I am! I have been searching online on as many ecyclopedia's, jazz research sites, articles, books, documentaries, etc..
Bebop is one of those genre's that in real plain english for those who dont understand African American Venacular means: Fuck off! Why? The folks who helped create bebop music were creating this fast pace style for themselves. This is a unapoligetic stance in creating music for people who view music as a artform versus something that 'everybody is supposed to like'. People like Theolonious Monk, Dizzy Gellispie, Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, and others have created something that has its own language.
Most of these artists have taken this language of music and have made it extremely complex and obscure to ward off copycats and pseudo jazz officianados. The artists create sophisticated melodies and chords, add lots of improvisation techniques, and sometimes use very fast tempos to come up with something that is sonically shocking. So shocking that for many years, people have resulted in violence over this music. You know what they always say: "People tend to hate what they dont understand". This form of music isnt something of a fad, or something to please record labels and critics. This is merely a expression of harmonic ingeniousness.
This form of music is one of the most important foundations of what is now called funk, soul, hip hop, r&b.
One one hand you have people like Lil Wayne, Kanye West, The New Boyz, Etc claiming that they are true musicians who are trying to push a artistic idea forward. And then you have the revolutionary jazz artists of the yester year, who are among those capable of creating timeless music.
People ask me why I wear fedora's and listen to old jazz music alot. The reason: Becuase I only like to surround myself with things in society that I deem to being timeless. Not everyone, nor everything is timeless. Music is timeless due to the fact that the recording which derives from some form of hard to understand language in an artists head. The artist takes this language and applies it to a piece of musical instrument. That instrument is recorded amongst other musical instruments. Those instruments create noise, something that we as humans call music. That music is then transformed into a format, and thus the format is in which the listener begins to actually hear the recording. That is timeless.
So I began my journeys into jazz by dabbling into some bebop. Of course many of you know that I also produce jazzy hip hop, and have sampled many of jazz greats from the past. But what if I actually took the time to study this form of music? Well I am! I have been searching online on as many ecyclopedia's, jazz research sites, articles, books, documentaries, etc..
Bebop is one of those genre's that in real plain english for those who dont understand African American Venacular means: Fuck off! Why? The folks who helped create bebop music were creating this fast pace style for themselves. This is a unapoligetic stance in creating music for people who view music as a artform versus something that 'everybody is supposed to like'. People like Theolonious Monk, Dizzy Gellispie, Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, and others have created something that has its own language.
Most of these artists have taken this language of music and have made it extremely complex and obscure to ward off copycats and pseudo jazz officianados. The artists create sophisticated melodies and chords, add lots of improvisation techniques, and sometimes use very fast tempos to come up with something that is sonically shocking. So shocking that for many years, people have resulted in violence over this music. You know what they always say: "People tend to hate what they dont understand". This form of music isnt something of a fad, or something to please record labels and critics. This is merely a expression of harmonic ingeniousness.
This form of music is one of the most important foundations of what is now called funk, soul, hip hop, r&b.
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